hostage
tree hugger
An Abundance of Katherine's by John Green
-It was full of dry humor, and provided an overly heart wrenching storyline.
-It was full of dry humor, and provided an overly heart wrenching storyline.
Literature What's the last book you really loved?
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MissCapricorn
SherLocked - OCs: Viola/Aloise Trevor
How To Stop Time by Matt Haig
Super Kawaii
かっこ
The Dao De Jing. ♥
Pierreuse
New Member
Tipping the Velvet! If you don't mind a lesbian main character (and some raunchy scenes), you will probably love it. It's so well-written and fun, with lots of twists and turns and a solid plot. You will laugh and gasp and, if you're like me, you'll cry!
Winter_Wolf
you had me at whiskey
The most recent was Goodbye, Transylvania by Sigmund Heinz Landau.
Landau was an ethnic German/Hungarian from Romanian-occupied Transylvania who joined the German SS in WW2 to escape Romanian conscription. He doesn't deny that Germans did do bad stuff on the Eastern Front, but he describes in gruesome detail the Soviet war crimes too, which are never really considered in popular understandings of WWII.
Landau was an ethnic German/Hungarian from Romanian-occupied Transylvania who joined the German SS in WW2 to escape Romanian conscription. He doesn't deny that Germans did do bad stuff on the Eastern Front, but he describes in gruesome detail the Soviet war crimes too, which are never really considered in popular understandings of WWII.
DatBoi
Hot diggidy dawg
This is the best thread I’ve ever come by! So many recommendations...I love it!
ThatDovah
the eternally tired human
Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre. A collection of stories from H.P. Lovecraft. A little beyond my reading level but each time I stick my nose in this collection I feel inspired to write something.
Idea
The Pun Tyrant
I haven't finished it yet, but there is book which doesn't have a linear story per se, called "The Screwtape Letters". It's written by C.S.Luis and it's a sublime work of ironic yet thought provoking view from a very logical standpoint of a man who was an antheist and converted, and with the book at each page I can see my own life and my own faith in a deeper way, one which I didn't explore before in notions which I had not even conceived.
The basic summary is that it's about this demon who is sending letters to his junior working on tempting a man so he can send his soul to Hell. Yet this demon is inexperienced and so the senior demon, Screwtape, needs to explain how to tempt properly- which ironically gives the reader a view into virtue.
The basic summary is that it's about this demon who is sending letters to his junior working on tempting a man so he can send his soul to Hell. Yet this demon is inexperienced and so the senior demon, Screwtape, needs to explain how to tempt properly- which ironically gives the reader a view into virtue.
Salanda
The Legend
A member of my extended family recently wrote a book called Kingdom Come. It had a few grammatical errors in the first few chapters, but the story itself was very very good and enjoyable!
https://www.amazon.com/Kingdom-Come...43&sr=8-1&keywords=Kingdom+Come+justin+coogle
https://www.amazon.com/Kingdom-Come...43&sr=8-1&keywords=Kingdom+Come+justin+coogle
Hall Kervean
Two Thousand Club
The House on Mango Street; it was small, so it wasn't a trial for the School assignment, but it was also a kinda nice read.
Forbysen
New Member
The Kite Runner. I read it when I was still in high school but it never fails to tug at my heart. It is my favorite to this day.
Amerikia1126
Occasionally Active
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. It has the most pathetic, quirky-in-a-good-way protagonist I can think of, the plot rambles on and on and goes off on side tangents all the time, and the book is pretty self aware on how often it repeats a certain phrase. Also it's a WWII book where the main character isn't in the military or in a concentration camp.
A lecto
Imagination is the only weapon against reality
Blackout by Rob Thurman the whole series is amazing but this book was my favorite for some reason 
SentinelSevn
Professional Coffee Addict
The Greatest Knight, by Thomas Asbridge.
Told the story of William Marshall, a legendary knight who spent his life serving five different kings throughout history. It isn't the absolute best book I've ever read, but it is one of the more recent that I can vividly remember.
Told the story of William Marshall, a legendary knight who spent his life serving five different kings throughout history. It isn't the absolute best book I've ever read, but it is one of the more recent that I can vividly remember.
Gaotau
Chief of Noodle Folk
I really enjoy The Last Herald Mage by Mercedes Lackey (two lovers who can't be together, based in ancient times, fantasy, etc) and The Mortal Instrument Series by Cassandra Clare. I don't really have other books that come close to those series.
OrenjiGatsu
The best moon you'll ever see.
My latest reading has been the famed Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. In all realness, I was re-reading it for an English paper, but I fell in love with the story. I never realised how close life in an Igbo tribe was to modern life until I read this book.
For a more-leisurely reading, I read Douglas Adam’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I am still reading it. It’s probably the most comedic book I’ve read, even though I’m halfway through.
For later, I do plan to read William Gibson’s Neuromancer, when my library ever gets the book. I really want to get into cyberpunk.
For a more-leisurely reading, I read Douglas Adam’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I am still reading it. It’s probably the most comedic book I’ve read, even though I’m halfway through.
For later, I do plan to read William Gibson’s Neuromancer, when my library ever gets the book. I really want to get into cyberpunk.
Leah_Kitten
Probably not here
I just finished Paper Towns
Azerinthus
New Member
Dante and Aristotle Discover the Universe
Filianore
Unlucky Member
I recently read The Martian by Andy Weir. You'd think, that after seeing the film so many times the book really couldn't offer you much more. oh boy I was a fool. It was an astoundingly joyful read. You should read it too
Blemmigan
Illusion is eternity. Machines will live forever.
Listen I’m going to keep on recommending the Mortal Engines trilogy until I die, or until it gets enough of a fanbase that I can sperg about it with other people. Either the upcoming movie will help that, or it will be rubbish and everyone will hate it, I don’t know. I just reread it sometimes and fall in love with it all over again.
Concept: Post-apocalyptic. We (the ancients) wiped ourselves out during the Sixty Minutes War. Now cities are on wheels and eat each other as per Municipal Darwinism. Many dumbass pop culture references (America was discovered by Christopher Columbo, the great explorer and detective) and in-jokes. Also, undead zombie cyborgs.
10/10 would recommend to everyone I meet.
Concept: Post-apocalyptic. We (the ancients) wiped ourselves out during the Sixty Minutes War. Now cities are on wheels and eat each other as per Municipal Darwinism. Many dumbass pop culture references (America was discovered by Christopher Columbo, the great explorer and detective) and in-jokes. Also, undead zombie cyborgs.
10/10 would recommend to everyone I meet.
waywarddemon
Methuselah
American Gods by Neil Gaiman!
I picked it up for my best friend and I to read it together and fell in love with the writing style.
I picked it up for my best friend and I to read it together and fell in love with the writing style.
Winter_Wolf
you had me at whiskey
Wide Open by Larry Bjornson, a historical fiction piece about the town of Abilene, Kansas in 1871 and its tensions between the cattle trade and agriculture, and those profiting off both, as well as post civil war tensions.
adrian_
julie my beloved 🥰
After thirty minutes of searching, i've found the book i'm looking for, Whittington, by Alan Armstrong is a book about a barn full of animals, including a cat with a busted nerve in his ear named Whittington, who help a young dyslexic boy get much betyer at reading. A really good read, if a bit short.
Angelsofblood
"Sounds like a super hero to me."
All Quiet on the Western Front. A very gripping and surreal look into the German army during WWI. The German soldiers attitudes and thoughts parallel a lot with our own modern day ideals, and the effects of long turn combat on the mind and body.
Marigold
Unlucky Member
I read the Reluctant Fundamentalist by Hamid in my Pakistani Literature class and it was amazing! It was a great commentary on relations between the Middle East and the United States, as well as the effects of 9/11. It was also written in the second person, which as an interesting choice. I hated the main character though lol.
